Frederick Douglass : new literary and historical essays / edited by Eric J. Sundquist.

Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Descriptionvi, 295 pages ; 24 cm.

SeriesCambridge studies in American literature and culture
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture. ^A664069
Contents "Ironic tenacity" : Frederick Douglass's seizure of the dialectic / Sterling Stuckey -- From Wheatley to Douglass : the politics of displacement / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Writing freely? : Frederick Douglass and the constraints of racialized writing / Wilson J. Moses -- Faith, doubt, and apostasy : evidence of things unseen in Frederick Douglass's Narrative / Donald B. Gibson -- Franklinian Douglass : the Afro-American as representative man / Rafia Zafar -- Reading slavery : the anxiety of ethnicity in Douglass's Narrative / David Van Leer -- The punishment of Esther : Frederick Douglass and the construction of the feminine / Jenny Franchot -- Race, violence, and manhood : the masculine ideal in Frederick Douglass's "The heroic slave" / Richard Yarborough.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 287-288) and index.
LCCN 90001705
ISBN0521380405